For example, back when Lin Zhenhua was still a technician, the second fertilizer plant in Jiangnan Province had imported a set of large fertilizer equipment, which included two 210,000 BTU ice machines.

During the installation process,

one of the ice machines' main shafts was accidentally smashed and broken, rendering it completely useless.

The Jiangnan Light Chemical Hall confirmed at that time that the primary responsibility lay with the Huaxia side, so they did not demand compensation from the Neon side.

Instead, after dealing with the responsible personnel, they expressed an intention to import another main shaft from the opposite side.

This matter was frustrating, but honestly quite normal:

It's like you bought a little electric scooter, and upon reaching the parking spot, you fell down and the steel balls fell out, so you could only go to the vendor for after-sales service.

And since it's after-sales service, the price should be a bit cheaper, not to mention that you had bought the equipment not long ago.

Then the other side replied with a message:

Providing the main shaft is no problem, but the price would be 30,000 US Dollars.

Keep in mind.

Back then, the price of one ice machine was only about a hundred thousand US Dollars, so selling the main shaft for three hundred US Dollars would have been considered high.

Later, Lin Zhenhua and others embraced the idea of striving for honor instead of bread, and the technical backbones all rallied to manufacture a main shaft.

When the Neon representative heard that we had produced a main shaft, they were unhappy and claimed that our shaft was greatly flawed and unusable.

In this situation, an eighth-level worker stood up and proposed a solution:

Let's stake our lives on it! 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

By "staking our lives," it meant fitting the Huaxia and Neon shafts into separate ice machines, with the eighth-level craftsman standing by the Huaxia shaft, and the Neon representative standing by their Neon shaft.

Then gradually increasing the speed to see which would fail first.

The initial speed of the ice machines was 1000 RPM,

then increased to 1500..2000...2500.

When it reached 3000 RPM on the Huawei side, the Neon representative chickened out.

Ultimately, he bowed his head and acknowledged that our main shaft was fine.

A few years later,

Lin Zhenhua encountered the Neon Corporation again in a bid for a large piece of equipment in the Northeast, where their tactics were even more underhanded, even causing Hanhua Group to fall into a situation similar to that of Huadun Biotech.

It's no wonder they say Huaxia's industrial history is a history of blood and tears; any random segment can cure your low blood pressure.

There is a saying on the internet that actually makes a lot of sense:

The hostility from Xiaoxiba mainly stems from the fact that historically we were their suzerain, and they don't want that mark.

They wanted to erase that 'humiliating' history, so from 1970 they began removing Chinese characters from textbooks, and in 2005 changed Han City to Seoul.

This was an open 'de-sinicization' policy, which is quite shameless, but the hostility mainly lies on the cultural level. Exactly for this reason.

He has also seen many of the Neon people's tactics.

One of the most common is selling equipment at a low price, then offering follow-up parts at high prices, sometimes even ten times the markup.